Hi Hiisi and JB,
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:07 PM, JD jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/25/2011 08:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to use ext4 (with gparted), it keeps getting auto-mounted as root both on F13 and F14. Any ideas what I could do about this?
Udev is the daemon that associated a drive name in /dev with a physical drive. You have a choice of either using uuids or make udev rules for each drive.
I presume by uuids you mean put it in my fstab? And wouldn't udev rules be machine specific too? Doesn't either of these defeat the purpose of portable external drives? I would have to do this one all my current systems, and all future systems I wish to use these drives with?
I was hoping there would be a more generic solution. I am surprised since my USB flash drives are auto-mounted as regular user just fine.